What do you think of my current draft?
Well, "it couldn't be worse" is after all just a silly saying and basically doesn't deserve anything else but to have the opposite proved ;-)
But I think you can at least be flexible in the planning phase.
Whatever that is supposed to mean (?) I had suggested starting with the upper floor. By that I did NOT mean dividing the areas of the upper floor resulting under these unfavorable conditions on the basis of the requirements from the ground floor in the least painful way possible. RATHER: to arrange and format the rooms of the upper floor. But you did not
plan the upper floor first, you only
drew it first. That is something completely different! Between writing and sending it was just rephrased as follows:
My suggestion: you have so many requirements for the upper floor, so just plan that first, without any thoughts about the ground floor. Give yourself the freedom to move the stairs as it suits the upper floor. You have nothing to lose in this experiment.
That’s exactly what I meant: see what happens if you don’t put this ridiculous stair position, around which the whole house twists, under monument protection.